"It's a new show to me. It's very different," Harigtay said earlier this week. "This new cast came on and I had no idea what to expect. We had a new showrunner. I am unbelievably surprised and so excited and happy. It was such a lesson to me about one chapter closes and another one opens."

While NBC has yet to announce the fate of the series, SVU's ratings hit a series low Wednesday with 4.4 million viewers and a 1.5 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic.